Polyploidy can be the result of a spontaneous multiplication of a plants genetic material or through hybridization, and is extremely common in domesticated crops. Phylogenetic origin of the Y ...

Leading expert on plant evolution and speciation and professor of Iowa State University, Jonathan Wendel, presented his research Thursday on cotton genomes and polyploidy in his presentation “Genes, ...

It is most common in plants, but also occurs in some of the most aggressive cancers. After WGD, the cell has extra genomes and is called polyploid. Most of our major crops are also polyploid ...

polyploidy is more common; and plants additionally contain chloroplastic DNA. A substantial number of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) annotated as graft-mobile on the basis of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq ...

Genome polyploidy is a major driver of species diversification and speciation. Polyploids are often cultivated as plant foods (e.g., wheat and persimmon) because they commonly form larger organs ...

Lectures consist of critical discussion of topics including species concepts, local adaptation and diversification, morphological and molecular evolution, mating systems, and the roles of ...

Evolution, ecology and genetics of plants, mutation rate, polyploidy, natural selection, mating systems, self-fertilization, flower development, molecular evolution. am interested generally in the ...